On 13.04.24 02:47, 'Earl Chew' via EFI Boot Guard wrote: > Jan, > >> Can you be a bit more specific why you need to have this configurable? > > I'm looking to support multiple distributions. > > https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI > >> Debian installs grub-efi for its EFI bootloader, as: >> >> Architecture Path >> amd64 \EFI\debian\grubx64.efi >> i386 \EFI\debian\grubia32.efi >> arm64 \EFI\debian\grubaa64.efi >> armhf \EFI\debian\grubarm.efi > > Other distributions use their own directories (eg \EFI\fedora, etc). > > EFI Boot Guard (EBG) looks for a specific data file (normally BGENV.DAT) > which contains a single kernel configuration entry, and there is no > obvious way to configure EBG to select a corresponding distribution. > > This patch proposes a change where each distribution builds and > configures its own instance of EBG, which can find its corresponding > data file (eg BGENV-DEBIAN.DAT, or EFI\debian\BGENV.DAT, etc). This > also has the benefit of decoupling the distributions at boot so that > a breaking EBG change to one distribution will not affect another. >
Thanks, that makes things much clearer. Please add some words about that also to the v2 commit message of this patch. Jan -- Siemens AG, Technology Linux Expert Center -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "EFI Boot Guard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to efibootguard-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/efibootguard-dev/7433ca47-5634-41db-8431-75a17bf1978b%40siemens.com.
